On Saturday night, the geocaching community came together at the Yarraville-Footscray Bowling Club to celebrate the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards for 2025. It was great to have so many join us to help celebrate the amazing caches and dedicated cache owners who make geocaching in Victoria so special.
Between dinner, lots of fun games, and other announcements (check out our next Mega here!), the winners of this year’s awards were revealed. From gadget caches and creative cache series, to labs & logs, and first hides & tricky hides, the award nominees had it all. Voting was very close in a number of categories, reflecting the quality of nominees. So who won?
2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Award Winners
| Category | GC Code | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Best Traditional Cache | GCB1PZ0 | The Spelling Bee (Sunbury 2025) by Mister Doctor |
| Best Multi Cache | GCBBVXH | Links to Emu Creek by kazba16 |
| Best Mystery Cache | GCB2PJN | Space Invaders Primary Phase Bonus Cache by Earthbound Chief |
| Best Other Cache | GCBDRNF | Scoria Cone – Organ Pipes National Park by micaparamedic |
| Best First Hide | GCB90ZH | Empire Mystery Mine by 888Solidarity |
| Best Cache Series (Joint Winners) | Alphabetical Green Hill Lake Special Tool Required | Alphabetical by BossConner Green Hill Lake by Crack’n’LeeLee Special Tool Required by veevers12 |
| Best Cache Location | GCB2ERC | GHL#1 – Heart of the Lake by Crack’n’LeeLee |
| Best Regional Cache (Joint Winners) | GCB6G6B GCBDZ71 | Psephological Revisited by chooknchunk Rosella’s residence by koalablina |
| Best Adventure Lab | Space Invaders Primary Phase | Space Invaders Primary Phase by Earthbound Chief |
| Best Cache Log | GL1F5TCB6 | BrianandGreg on EMU CREEK CACHE 2 |
| Best Overall Cache | GCB1PYB | A Puggle Called Muggle (Sunbury 2025) by Mister Doctor |
Congratulations to all of this years winners and to everyone who was nominated by their peers. A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the awards by nominating, finding, and voting for the best caches within our community.
Sponsors
The Victorian Cache of the Year Awards have once again been supported by our amazing community sponsors with close to $1,000 in prizes donated. Many have sponsored the awards for multiple years. We extend out sincere gratitude to the following sponsors for this years awards:
- BernieH
- Bunnadoorian
- Bunnings
- Geocaching Victoria
- Grub62
- OzHockeyChick
- posums
- Sol de Lune
- Tiz13
- Charitable Cacher (Anonymous)
- Super Kind Cacher (Anonymous)
Profile Badge and Cache Page Banner
If you were a nominee or winner in the 2025 Victorian Cache of the Year Awards, you can proudly share your acheivement with the community!
- Add a badge to your personal profile to showcase your nomination or win.
- Add a banner to your cache page so finders know your cache was part of the 2025 awards.
Visit this link to download the badge and banner resources.
Competition Winners
We also drew the winners of the Nominee Finders, and Which Cache Am I? competitions.
Winners of the draw for finding nominated caches:
- monk3ybash3r (winning a Dremel 3000 and cache prize pack donated by Bunnings)
- Suscoe (winning a fuel voucher and cache prize pack donated by Geocaching Victoria)
Winners of the draw for the “Which Cache Am I?” competition:
- BettyBoo3747 – First correct guess on 15 October (Voucher and cache prize pack donated by Geocaching Victoria)
- EthisEthat – Random correct guess (Voucher and cache prize pack donated by Geocaching Victoria)
Looking ahead to the 2026 awards
As 2026 draws to a close it’s time to start thinking about the great new caches, labs and logs you’ve found this year that you feel are worthy of the BEST nomination next year. You can keep track of the new caches published in 2026 through the following cache lists (with many more available here):
- 2026 First hides published in Victoria
- 2026 Traditional hides published in Victoria
- 2026 Non Traditional hides published in Victoria
Thanks to everyone who assisted with our competitions and event, with special mention to Suscoe, LetThemEatCache and Kristysadventures for their tireless work pulling the event and games together.
Who will be nominated next year?
